Next, if you aren’t able to easily distinguish what the smoothie is based on what you’ve put in the bag or you have specific ingredients you need to add when you prepare the smoothie, such as juice rather than water.

Be sure to add any additional information on the bag using a permanent marker.

Then, place all of the solid ingredients in a freezer safe plastic zip top bag.

This would include ingredients like the fruits and vegetables, grains (like rolled oats), seeds (like flax or chia), nuts or coconut oil.

Squeeze as much air out of the bag as you are able to do and zip.

Then, stash all the bags in your freezer.

When it is time to prepare your smoothie, just dump all of the contents of the bag into your blender along with any additional ingredients, such as the liquids, and blend.

Madeline’s absolute favorite smoothie right now is this Pineapple Apple Kale Smoothie.

I love it too and I love that she is getting a large serving of green vegetables to start off her morning.

Every time I give her a glass of this she sighs and says “Mom, you make the BEST smoothies.”

I like to add a scoop of vanilla protein powder to our Pineapple Apple Kale Smoothie when we have it for breakfast to make it a little more substantial.

I’m honestly not sure if she knows that this Pineapple Apple Kale Smoothie has kale in it.

She either knows and doesn’t care or hasn’t realized since she usually doesn’t watch me make it.

When she first asked what kind of fruit it had, I told her it had green apples and pineapple.

So, I kind of think she accepted the fact that it is green based on that it has green apples in it.

Notes

These are easy to make ahead of time and store in the freezer. You can add all of the fruits and vegetables for one recipe into a small freezer friendly zip top bag and freeze and make several bags in advance. Then, when you are ready to make a smoothie, dump the contents of one bag into the blender and follow the remaining instructions.

Alternately, you can prepare the full smoothie recipe and freeze the prepared smoothie in small individual serving containers, such as plastic freezer jam jars. This is a great option for packing smoothies in kids' lunches. Put the smoothie in frozen in their lunch bag along with a spoon and it will be sorbet consistency by lunchtime.

Pumpkin Oatmeal Breakfast Smoothie

This Pumpkin Oatmeal Breakfast Smoothie is the perfect way to celebrate fall with your kids! It is easy to prepare, super healthy and full of all your favorite fall spices. What isn’t to love about a smoothie recipe that tastes like pumpkin pie?

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